So the band name had me wondering if they were referencing the mighty Oceansize... but then I saw the track listing. Sure, they like their references as the title of the opening song indicates, but we’re in joke territory rather than the domain of the beautiful, spacious epic. ‘Colin Farmer Will Have His Revenge on Lancashire’ - really? It’s followed by ‘Jellied Eels’: there’s a song called ‘9 Toed Woman’ and then there’s ‘Rupert Murdoch’s Death Wank’.
The Rochester trio reference The Fall, Wire, The Swell Maps, Mudhoney, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Nirvana, Pixies, Bikini Kill, Frau Pouch, Bear Vs Manero, UpCDownC, The A-Lines, Catholicism, Rupert Murdoch and categorise themselves as ‘punk garage grunge post-rock’. It’s an apprpriately messy, dirty, rough ‘n’ ready effort that sounds like it was recorded on an old 4-track portastudio.
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A grinding bass underpins a gritty guitar racket and distorted vocals and while it certainly doesn’t soar the heights of Oceansize’s monumental musical vision, as far as grimy, grungy underground noise goes, it’s good: bits of Nirvana, early Therapy? and lesser-known noisenicks like Tar, Headcleaner and Lung are evoked in the murky guitar-driven assault, although the lyrical content (when it’s possible to make it out) is something of a let-down .
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